Spent yesterday moving most of a pile of stone. It was in the middle of where I want a lawn and I've moved it about 50 feet and made it into a wall which seems te most efficient way of storing it for future use. It might even stay as the wall. I'm guessing that it was about 15 to 20 tons so Ishould have had a fair bit of exercise!

I need to go over all the area that we are converting from field to lawn extracting proruding rocks and cutting off tusocks so that I can use the mover. After a couple of seasons it should be OK to buy a ride-on mower and use that. I shall have ruined the present one by then knowing my luck.

The idea is to put in shrubs and trees first to get some basic shape to the garden and to work our way down in plant size as we progress. I am very much a beginner gardener in that I never paid much attention to what my parent did with theirs, even though my late mother was a National Assosiation of Flower Arrangers Judge and could rattle of the proper names of everything.